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An inside look at the San Francisco GiantsTue, 03 Mar 2015 20:16:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1By: orangeandblackhttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/2013/04/10/postgame-notes-with-zito-pitching-this-well-why-wouldnt-you-want-him-back-plus-other-notes/#comment-365790
orangeandblackThu, 11 Apr 2013 18:49:57 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=12229#comment-365790First things first: if Posey’s sis is a hottie I’m gonna hurl. You can’t have EVERY d@mn thing can you? Actually, I remember from back a couple years everybody in the Posey clan acknowledging that Sam was the best athlete in the family.

Since everybody is waxing rhapsodic about Zeets, I’l recall a comment he made after his first elimination game save. He said he and his wife were praying he’d get the start. Several important things in that comment. One, he prayed. Went way down deep inside and left it to a bigger power. Second, they prayed. Amazing how a good marriage can help change and add focus in your life (especially a long time playa like Barry). Finally, he admitted it. Says something about his honesty and accountability.

It could be gone tomorrow, but I’m digging it now.

As far as Barry and Timmy, guess folks don’t remember the dugout rail chats those two had throughout the 2010 playoffs. They have always communicated closely, and I’m guessing Zeets will have had a role (which we probably will hear nothing about) when Tim gets it going.

You hit the nail on the head regarding Purdy and the A’s to San Jose. I might have mentioned this before, but he gets major kudos for using his column influence to help San Jose get the Sharks. Part of me (okay a whole lot of me) thinks he’s trying to see if he can do the same with getting the A’s to San Jose.

On a similar note…I had a very. very calm conversation with a co-worker/A’s fan yesterday about their move to San Jose. This fan, like many other A’s fans that I’ve read comments from, have no idea about the true facts of this issue from a business/personal relationship standpoint. For example…

• Wolff and Selig being fraternity brothers. (Conflict of interest)
• The A’s NEVER owned the Santa Clara County rights (neither did the Giants) and Mr. Haas gave his blessing to Giants to take those territorial rights in their efforts to move to San Jose (which Diane Feinstein did her best to crush). Mr. Haas gave his blessing because he never intended for the A’s to leave Oakland.
• The current Giants ownership purchased the Giants knowing that the Santa Clara County territorial rights were a huge equity piece in the Giants value. I’ve also read that the Giants documented these rights many times in loan documents to show feasibility to make income to repay any stadium-related debts.
• John Fisher…who owns 80% of the A’s…was part of the current Giants ownership that purchased the Giants knowing that Santa Clara County was part of the Giants equity piece.
• Lew Wolff only owns 10% of the A’s and is banking on making huge bucks in real estate, if he can whine his way to San Jose. His San Jose land purchases (by proposed stadium site) has been…and still may be…legally scrutinized.
• Oh yeah…Wolff also played the victim role when he tried to build condos out of part of SF’s Fairmont (which he owned) and the City of SF had to fight him to prevent it. He eventually sold. (Sounds like a A’s to San Jose strategy, eh?)

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Slide DogThu, 11 Apr 2013 15:29:50 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=12229#comment-365720About Belt gripping in RISP situations … seems to me he’s the kind of guy who’d have been more comfortable 30-40 years ago. Pounding a few brews before the game to ‘ease up the nerves’, putting in some chew and going on out without the cameras and microscopic analysis. Just seems that there’s a lot of bees buzzing between his ears that need to quiet down during at-bats.

Great outing by Zito last night. I remember when the Giants first signed him , the image I had of his pitching was pretty much what we’ve seen these first couple of games. Darts coming from all angles and left handed hitters buckling out of the way of the curveball. Just wish umpires would hang with that pitch more, and give a couple more strikes. In the words of Dennis Green ‘he is what we thought he was’ … at least now.

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2holehittingThu, 11 Apr 2013 15:03:21 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=12229#comment-365717At this point Reddick. He has 2x the batting average, infinite more home runs and only 1 K in 27 AB compared to Belts 6 K’s in 28 at bat. Bet is on average a 1 in 4 to 5K per AB with little power shown to date.
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2holehittingThu, 11 Apr 2013 14:57:16 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=12229#comment-365716@Kyle

Oh man you expect a lifelong cub fan to throw in Keith Hernandez? Come on that is like a Giants fan wanting him to be like a poorman Steve Garvey.

The A’s sure look good, but I didn’t pick them to make the playoffs because I figure pitchers will figure out Cespedes and continue to figure out whatever they figured out about Reddick. Doesn’t seem like anybody can figure out Cespedes and they are just a very well rounded TEAM. Guys like Seth Smith coming of the bench is handy. They need a third baseman.

Okay, let’s compare Belt to Reddick real quick. Noted is Belt’s .780ish OPS last year. He certainly did not his 30 homeruns. Well, Reddick did yet his OPS was .768. His 2011 rates in Boston w/o the power surge, were a hair better.

Interesting #’s fact of the day. So who’d you rather have in the middle of your lineup, Belt or Reddick?

i have it on very good authority (a’s owner) that there is no way to field a winning team in oaktown

if billy beane had a 100 mil budget, he would field a dynasty….FACT

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2holehittingThu, 11 Apr 2013 14:10:34 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/?p=12229#comment-365708Note: BB9 is in JT territory already. Last year his numbers were similarl to JT career numbers

JT carer= 268 .357 .427 .784
Belt 2012 = .275 .360 .421 .781

For the way people admire JT, his career numbers were quite ordinary with little power(11 homers a year average).

But I want more than mediocre JT numbers or Travis like numbers.

Give me Mark Grace or Bill Mueller like averages or give me Pops Stargell or Willie Mac like power but do not give me 270 10 homers a year with a K every 4 at bats.